Comic book artist and creator Jack Katz has passed away. Jacob (Jack) Katz September 27, 1927 – April 24, 2025 Andrew Kunka, close associate of Jack Katz, let fandom know that the creator has passed away: Jack Katz passed away yesterday. He was 97. I had gotten to know Jack after I wrote an article […]
Independent Bookstore Day is held on the last Saturday of April every year. So naturally the 900-pound gorilla of book sales decides to have that and surrounding days as the weekend of their Spring sales event – doing what they can to ruin any effort by the small independents to survive. For anyone out and […]
Magazine illustrator Mark Zingarelli has passed away. Mark Alan Zingarelli July 11th, 1952 – April 18th, 2025 From the obituary: Mark attended The Ivy School of Professional Art for a short period before going to the University of Pittsburgh majoring in art and film-making. He left before graduation to pursue an animation opportunity in San […]
Blondie and Dagwood and … Blame Blondie by Dean Young and John Marshall (actually Elmo) for this post’s title. So is John Zakour and Scott Roberts’ Working Daze situated in the city where Dagwood works? Lou from Dagwood’s favorite diner showed up in the Working Daze panel today. One more Blondie as part of today’s […]
Jim Keefe remembers Jay Kennedy; Jay Kinney recalls his underground comix days; Rick Marschall presents W. C. Fields, cartoonist; Allan Holtz present W. C. Fields the comic strip; Brian Walker of The Cartooning Walker Family profiled; and the Art Spiegelman documentary; and Randy Milholland honors Hy Eisman in today’s Popeye. Jay Kennedy I first met […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for April 2025 release (or so). Images and links from a variety of publishers and outlets, though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea. Thinking About Thinking: Impossible Thoughts and Complicated Feelings by Grant Snider A playful examination of […]
Bill Watterson’s Calvin and Hobbes; Bill Papas’ Semana Santa; Chic Young’s Blondie; Charles Sculz’s Peanuts; and Kirkus Reviews’ best “comic’ books of the 21st Century. Calvin and Hobbes Hand-Colored Daily Comic Strip Original Art Heritage Auctions will be putting up for bid a very early Calvin and Hobbes comic strip “inscribed to artist Jim Borgman […]
That Famous Thurber Spot Drawing for The New Yorker First, a brief reminder of what’s what: New Yorker “Spot” drawings are not New Yorker cartoons. Once upon a time, pre-Tina Brown era, Spots were those unrelated, uncaptioned drawings by various artists, placed here and there throughout the magazine. They could be humorous, but they could […]
Basil and Monte Wolverton; Flash Gordon by Alex, Jim, Dan, and a bunch of others; public domain Popeye and Olive; a hint of next winter’s Doonesbury special art; plus actual comic strips and panels from this week. Let’s start with the news for the indexers. This week sees the King Features Weekly Service dropping Dan […]
For those interested in the very earliest history of comic strips Antoine Sausverd has an announcement: About a month ago, we set out to enlighten the “Early Comics” universe with a fair selection of David Kunzle’s legacy on the subject. Indeed, our “David Kunzle page” (DKP) wants to pay tribute to Kunzle as a pioneer […]
With Nick Anderson, David Haldane, Paige Braddock, Kaj Hasselriis, Dan Misdea, Bob Hale, and Guy Badeaux. Nick Anderson Interviewed for Future Documentary From Nick Anderson: Today I had the honor of being interviewed by a very talented director who creates documentaries for PBS. I’m a fan of his work, so it was a real privilege […]
With cartoonists Carol Lay, Ali Fitzgerald, Andrea Beizer, Bill Bettwy, Colleen Doran, G. B. Trudeau, Paul and Brad Anderson, Jeff and Bil Keane, Larry Lieber, and Gilbert Shelton and Ted Richards (with Willy Murphy and Gary Hallgren). Reading Room: Comics For Earth In 1952 the lead character in cartoonist Walt Kelly’s popular “Pogo” comic strip […]
Comic strip and comic book cartoonist Hy Eisman has passed away. Hyman (Hy) Eisman March 27, 1927 – March 27, 2025 The Joe Kubert School, where Hy had been a teacher from 1976 to 2019, shared the sad news: It is with deep sadness that we share the passing of an incredibe artist, and a […]
Featuring Greg and Karen Evans, Jamar Nicholas, Jeff Weigel, Dan Thompson, G. B. Trudeau, Peter Arno, and Charles Schulz. NCS Open House Meet-n-Greet and Member Spotlight On the other side of this weekend: Come mingle with current NCS members and others interested in the professional world of cartooning. Open to professionals interested in the NCS–please […]
Below are some comic strip and cartoon books scheduled for March 2025 release (or so). Images and links from a variety of publishers and outlets, though ordering through your local comic shop or independent book store is a good idea. Barnaby Volume Five by Crockett Johnson and Jack Morley Volume Five collects the final two-plus […]